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Exquisite Spring SuitsSuits ie& At $23.75

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THE MARTIN COMPANYI01IYF FOR MURDER

PROBABLY ROBBERYSpokane, Wash., March 256.-That

"John Saudauski came to his deathbetween March 1 and March 21, at aplace unknown, from gunshot woundsinflicted by a party or parties un-known," was the verdict of the cor-oner's jury today at the inquest inthe case of the Polish cabinet-makerwhose scorched body was found lastSunday on Fort George Wright mili-tary reserve. The evidence indlicatedthat after the murder kerosene waspoured on the body and set on fire.The evidence which led to the arrestof Paul Clein, Saudauski's friend, onthe charge of committina the murderwas not presented to the jury. Robberyis supposed to have been the mo-tive.

TO TAKE OVER SCHOOLS.

Chicago, March 24.-1-Definito meas-ures will be under way witliin a fewweeks icr the taking over of theChicago vacation schools by the board

of education, making Chicago one ofthe first cities in the United States tomaintain a municipal "all the year'round" school system.

Heretofore 'the vacation schools havebeen operated by an outside organiza-tion composed chiefly of club women.

The Lake shore railroad is exl,~ :-

menting with dispatching fast trainsbetween Buffalo and Chicago withwireless telegraphy.

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SOUTHERNERS PLANTO LAND CONVENTION

Spokane, March 25.-Delegates fromthe southern states to the meeting ofthe national irrigation congress inSpokane the second week in Augustprobably will make a concerted ef-fort to have the eighteenth sessionsof the organization take place some-where in the south.

James Cosgrove of Charleston, S. C.,secretary of the sanitary and drain-age commllission for C`harleston county,intimates this In a letter to ArthurHooker, secretary of the local boardof control of the semventeenthl congress.

He says:"1 would like to have you think over

the propoultiion to have the sessionsafter the Spokane meeting soinewhllrein the south. Personally, 1 believe('hi.rlhston would he the right placeanl I have no doubt that our peoplewould arrange to entel tain the dele-gates royally."

Mr. Cosgrove says that it will be a

hlasture for him and the residents ofCharleston to take upl with their

rterevtiltatives in congrl'ess the matterof the invitation to the president to

attend the congress in Spokane, add-

ing:"1 trust we will be able to have

President Taft attend the sessionls, as

1 recognize it will be of inestimablebenefit to all who attend to have himdelivcr an address."

Regarding tha reference to havingthe 1910 congress in the south, Mr.Hooker said:

"The proposition submited by Mr.Cosgrove is a novel and an attractiveone and if formally presented to the

congress by our southern friends, I

am of the opinion that the delegates

would give It every consideratinon."

One of the most marvelous exhibitsever attempted in the department offisheries, will be shown at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition when thepeculiar illusion of live birds, flittingabout among swimming fishes andother animal water life, will be pro-duced. The strange effect is arrivedat by cleverly inserting large jars, in-verted, in the bottom of the aquariumsand in these jars the various birdswill be allowed to fly about at will.

Missoula Play HousesAt the Bijou.

The Bijou entertallied large housesat each of its performances last even-ing. The program, an exceptionallygood one, pleased all who were in at-tendlance. The headliners were "Cleo-patra's Lo)ers," a subject intenselydramatic, "The Haunted Lounge" and"The Neighbors' Kids," both of comicnature. The illustrated song, "FromYour Dear Heart," was pleasing, assung by Ed Levassuer. There will bea complete change of program thisevening.

At the Lyric.At each performance of the Lyric

last evening there were e well filledhouses. The program 'consisted ofthree films, each of a different char-acter and very interesting. The "Be-ginning of the Serpentine" was a col-ored tWiln of great beauty. "The CocoaIndustry" took one from the time the

HOPE IS ABANDONEDFOR GREAT ACTRESS

Santa Ana. Cal., March 5.--A con-sultation of physician' was held todayover the conditioln of 1ladam HeleneModjeska, who is Ill at her cottage atBay Island, near this city. After theconsultation, Dr. Bloyd. who is thefamily physician. stated that whileMme. Modjeska's condition was noworse than it has been for severaldays, she was liable to fall into astate of comatat any time and theend might come soon. lie held outlittle tope for her recovery, even Ifshei survived the present attack ofheart trouble, combined with Bright'sdisease.

A colony of Alaska Indian basketweavers will have quarters on thegrounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacificexlosition, and during the fair will beseen In the intricate art of preparingthefibres and manufacturing the bas-kets for which many of the northerntribes are famous.

tree was planted until it was servedon the table, and depicted scenes fromlife in Trinidad during festive times."The Two Sons" was particularlypleasing. The illustrated song, "INever Knew What Love Was Until IMet You," was well received by theaudience. The program will be en-tirely changed this evening.

At the Grand.Last evening at the Grand theater

there was an almost entire change ofprogram. St. Clair. the harpist, wasretained to fill out the week's engage-ment. The new acts are the "EllaGarrison Travesty company" and"Billy Baxter." a black-face comedianand clog dancer. The managementhas secured Fred Potter, who sings theillustrated song "Someone" in a veryengaging manner. The moving plc-tures are of new and novel character.

EXPLOSION IS FINALLYFATAL TO KIMBALL

Fred Kimball, the young man whowas badly injured by being struckby rocks from a premature blast atNimrod two weeks ago, died at alocal hosnital at 5:30 o'clock yester-d(lay morning. At the time he wasinjured, a special train was run toMissoula in order to place him in theinfirmary and he has been lingeringon the brink of death ever since. Nohope was entertained for his recovery,as he had a large hole in his skull,made by one of the flying rocks. Nofuneral arrangements have yet beenmade.

During the period between the firstof June and the first of October theAlaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition peri-od, there will be no burning of forestclearing, or unnecessary fires permit-ted in the state of Washington, themost magnifloant views to be men inthe world will be viewed through theclearest atmosphere found on eaith.

'UICANADIA OUTWITYANKEES

WRITER SAYS RAILROAD PRO-

MOTER8 MADE $13,068,887 OUT

OF NOTHING.

New York, March 25,-That James

J. Hill, Lord Mount Stephen, Lord

Strathcona and a few others associat-

ed in the development of the Hill

railroads of the northwest have in

about thirty years divided amongthemselves the colossal sum of $407,-000,000, exclusive of dividents, interestor other emoluments, and that thisstupendous fortune has been made

from an original investment of noth-ing, is the amazing assertion madeby Charles Edward Russell in an ar-ticle entitled "The Heart of the Rail-road Problem" in the April numberof Hampton's Magazine.

Incredible as this amount is. thepresent investigator has found it tobe "only a part of the colossal profitscoined from an investment of nothingby this most wonderful Americanmoney-making machine, and when youcome to see the full balance-sheet of

these operations you will agree withme that never before have there been

such marvelous results from a be-

ginning so inconsiderable."Tracing the genesis of what is now

the Great Northern and allied lines,the court records disclose, among oth-er startling facts, that "When Jesse

P. Farley came into the St. Paul &Pacific railroad in 1873 as receiver forthe United States district court, thefirst division of the St. Paul. & Pa-

cific, as then known, had the ,line

from St. Paul to Breckenridge and

the branch to Sauk Rapids; the othercompany, known simply as the St.Paul & Pacific railroad, had the ex-tension from Watab to Brainerd andthe lI e from St. Cloud to St. Vin-

cent,n all something more than four

hundred miles of track. Farley notonly put these in order, but he com-

pleted connections with the Canadian

railroad at the frontier. He still

further proved his capacity when,

after three or four years of his re-

ceivership, the Minnesota legislature

liassed an act providing that unlessthe road should be completed to acertain point within a certain time itmust forfeit part of the rich land

grant whereof the people's representa-

tives had been so liberal. Judge John

F. Dillon authorized Farley as re-ceiver to construct this extension andto issue receiver's debentures for the

expense. So the receiver built 112

miles of new road and saved the land

grant," says Mr. Russell.

The Real Cost of a Railroad.

Four facts connected with this op-eration are important, he summar-izes:

"First, Judge Dillon limited thecost of construction to $10,000 a mile,and this sum must include stationbuildings, grounds, side tracks andequipment.

"Second, The receiver built andequipped the 112 miles for less thanthe limit fixed, expending only about$9,500 a mile, some stretches beingdone for $8,225 a mile. Kindly re-member this. It is a good fact tohave handy when you encounter theassertion of gentlemen in the railroadwar that it costs $60,000 to $75,000 amile to build a railroad.

"Third, .the receiver filed with thecourt detailed accounts of every itemof expense connected with this work,and every citizen can go now and seein the office of the clerk of the Uni-ted States district court at St. Paul,Minn., exactly What it costs to buildand equip a railroad when the work ishonestly done.

"Fourth, the construction companywith the alias, as before noted, ex-pending the money of the lownly andignorant foreigner, had charged up

$30,000 a mile for the construction inthe same region and had done thework so badly that when the receivertook charge much of the track wasunsafe."

J. J. Hill, at that time, was localfreight agent of the road at St. Paul.Securing the co-operation of NormanW. Kittson, George Stephen and Don-aid A. Smith, first mortgages werepresently and quietly obtained "onmore than 500 miles of operated rail-road and 2.580,606 acres of land, on theunderstanding that they should not bepaid for until the road be reorganized.This was done in 1879, the Canadianbrotherhood forming the St. Paul,Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.,of which George Stephen was presi-dent; Norman W. Kittson and DonaldA. Smith, directors and James J. Hill,general manager. Whereupon therewas appointed a master in chancerywho, on the fourteenth day of June,1879, sold all the property of the twoSt. Paul & Pacifies to the St. Paul,Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.for $6,780,000-obviously one o$ themost romantic events in railroad his-'tory, and too romantic for those thatdid not share in it.

"For presently came the sale by theSt. Paul, Minneapolis & ManitobaRailway Co. of the greater part ofthe land for $13,068,887, followed bythe sworn testimony of the receiverthat the property sold for $6,780,000 wasworth at the time more than $15,-000,000.

"There was also issued by thebrotherhood $15,000,000 of St. Paul,Minneapolis & Manitoba stock, forwhich not one cent was ever paidinto the company's treasury, being in

fact the purest water that ever gushedand gurgled from the financial rocks.Of this stock Mr. Hill, Mr. Kittsonnad Mr. Smith took 28,823 shares each,being about one-fifth. Mr. Stephentook two-fifths, one of which he heldin trust for some person or personsunknown.

"The $15,000,000 of stock thus neatlycreated out of nothing by the merewaving of the wand of financialwizardry presently became an enorm-ously valuable possession, and is,therefore, to be added to the spoilssecured from the outwitted Yankees."

The value of wireless telegraphywas evidenced shortly after the Ital-ian earthquake, when there was con-stant communication Ietween theEiffel tower at Paris and French *ar-ships at Messina, a distance of about1,000 miles.

By the addition of the salts of Cal-cium, barium or strontium to arclight carbons they can be made togive light tinted yellow, pearl, white

or red, wepa vey. The first givesthe hlighmt tfCte4hloT.

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MATCH IS OFF FORCHAMPIONSHIP

JOHNSON-KETCHEL BOUT A HOT-

- AIR SCHEME OF PRESS AGENT

WILLUS BRITT.

As has been expected since VilllusBritt. began his megaphone pressagent spelling about forcing Johnsonto fight Stanley Ketchel, the proposedmatch has fallen through for the rea-son that Ketchel failed to post a for-felt binding the match.

Britt has kept .the wires betweenNew York and San Francisco hot withmessages detailing what an awfulamount of damage Ketchel was go-ing to do to Johnson's Countenencewhen once they got into the ring to-gethbr. The talk created a lot ofamusement on the coast and no onewho followed the events of the prizering in recent years took the match atall seriously. As a matter of factJohnson is scheduled to fight beforethe National Sporting club of Lon-don on June 23 and, according toBritt's reports, the fight between thebig smoke and the Grand Rapids manwas to have taken place about June9. Such a plan would not allow John-son sufficient time to reach Englandand recuperate from a long and ted-ious journey.

Ketchel and Britt are now aimingtelegraphic and newspaper shafts atPhiladelphia Jack O'Brien. with whomKetchel is now matched to fight. Thisscrap is billed to be pulled off beforethe National Athletic club in NewYork tomorrow night. The mill shouldbe a good one if it is on the squareand O'Brien is in good physical trim.

BATTLING NELSON'SBOOK CAUSES TROUBLE

J. Ignatius Finnegan, a St. Louisnewspaper man, in a letter recentlywritten to a Chicago daily paper, em-phatically declares that he wroteevery word of Battling Nelson's newbook.

"Nelson did not write or composeone paragraph in the whole book,"says Finnegan. "I secured most of theearly dope of his career from GeorgeSlier, who knew him well. Nelsonmerely paid my expenses while I waswith him. I am a partner with Nel-son in the book, and ever since Iturned it over to him, Nelson hasignored me. I have placed the mat-ter in the hands of my attorney, andwill ask for an injunction against thepublishers of the story."

Nelson, when shown the latter, saidthat Finnegan was merely hisstenographer, and that the book waswritten entirely by himself. "Ofcourse I did not pound the typewritermyself, but every sentence in thebook was framed up by me," saidNelson.

PAPKE AND FLYNN AQAIN.

Billy Papke is loudly clamoring fora return match with Fireman JimFlynn who recently outpointed the ex-Illinois thunderbolt on the coast.Papke continues to assert that hecan whip Flynn and may be given achance to demonstrate this ability be-fore the Pacific Athletic club of LosAngeles in April. Flynn has signifiedhis willingness to meet Papke andsays he will dispose of the Illinoisman by the knockout route this time.Papke attributes his recent defeat toFlynn's superior weight.

OFFERS BIG PURSEFOR FIGHT AT TACOMA

Tacoma, Wash., March 25.-ColonelAndy Mulligan, the well-known sport-ing man, has come to the front withan offer of a $75,000 purse for JimJeffries and Jack Johnson. Mulliganstipulates that the contest must takeplace in or near Tacoma on or be-fore October 15, next, and that it mustbe for 20 rounds. He has placeda forfeit of $5,000 with Biddy Bishop,the local sporting writer, and as soonas Jeffries and Johnson consent tothe match, Mulligan will place $5,000more, and when the articles aresigned, he will put up the balance ofthe purse. Jeffries and Johnson halebeen communicated with and ananswer is expected from the two bigmen before the week is out.

Good Liniment.You will hunt a good while before

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THE NEW

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CityOrCountry

I handle property of either kind.If you are in the market, either tobuy or sell, it will interest you tolook over my list. I have some of-ferings in city property that arespecially desirable. If you haveproperty to sell I shall be glad tohandle it for you. I have some cli-ents right now who want to in-vest; perhaps yours is just theproperty they want. Anyway, comearound and see me.

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Missoula, Montana.

Come Around atNoon,

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PLUMBINGJ. P. GRADY

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WILL SEND HORSESACROSS THE OCEAN

Cleveland, Ohio, "March 25.-An-nouncement is made here that C. K.Billings, the Chicago capitalist andfamous amateur reinsman, will sendto Europe this season his entire stableof trotters. His horses are nowquartered at Billings' private stable inthis city. They will be shipped Sur-ing the first week of April and mustbe sent direct to Berlin, where finalpreparations for their return per-formances will begin at the West Endtrack.

Billings will follow later in hisyacht, the Vanadis. The stable willconsists of 10 horses. Lou Dil-lon, W. J. Lewis, Tempus Fu-git, Flefing Boy, Turley, Berta May,and Delight. This is not only thelargest and fastest collection eversent across the Atlantic but it marksthe first attempt of an American tosend a string of high-class trotters toEuropean tracks. Billings will con-sent to have them appear at some ofthe race meetings, but only for exhi-bition purposes, and for no greater re-ward than a ribbon.

BRITT IN LONDON.

James Edward Britt, the originalnative son, is "quite the proper thing"in London "doncherknow." TheAmerican boxer recently was electeda member of the exclusive NationalSporting club of that city, a distinc-tion never before conferred upon apugilist. The election of James Ed-ward has caused much dissensionamong some of the members of theclub, who claim that it is a gentle-man's organization and that pugilists,while all right in their place in thering, and not wanted as associates.

All prises won by Washington ex-hibitors in the poultry show at theAlaska-Yutko-Paeflfi expoe•tien willbe dUl.ted, by the state espositioncommisston.